This report aims to ‘crack the code’, or to decipher the factors that hinder or facilitate girls’ and women’s participation, achievement and continuation in STEM education, and what can be done by the education sector to ...

This policy paper is launched to mark International Day of Human Rights on 10 December, 2016, in the context of the mandate of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report to monitor the education-related targets in the ...

There are today 264 million children and youth not going to school – this is a failure that we must tackle together, because education is a shared responsibility and progress can only be sustainable through common efforts. ...

A network of libraries exists in almost every country: there are around 320,000 public libraries worldwide, of which about 230,000 are in developing and transitioning countries. In addition, there are more than a million ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) articulate a universal, holistic and ambitious global development agenda, setting out 17 goals, and 169 related targets. Among the SDGs there is a goal on Education and Lifelong ...

The analyses presented in this booklet exemplify ways in which data from a cross-national learning assessment such as PIRLS can help monitor progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, which aims to “ensure ...

This Report makes three messages starkly clear. Firstly, the urgent need for new approaches. On current trends only 70% of children in low income countries will complete primary school in 2030, a goal that should have been ...